New Greenwald Article about Microsoft, Skype and NSA

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Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.


The documents show that:

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;

• In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;

• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".

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More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
 



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I have a feeling people are going to care less and less about this and then nothing is going to change.
 
Last person I spoke to about this said, "yes but the NSA haven't broken the law, have they", with such triumph. As if to say: "I understand global politics and law on a deeper, superior level and you who complain are just naive idealists."

So when they make it 'legal' to take away all your possessions and fuck you in the face for trying to expose their corruption that'll be ok too will it? I wish I'd said that out loud.

The people get what they deserve.
 
Every consumer and business in the world who follows the news have just been preconditioned to adopt new systems in the following years.
 
r3p1v said:
I have a feeling people are going to care less and less about this and then nothing is going to change.
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I already don't care.

The really fun question for WFers is how close Google is tied into the NSA.
 
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